1. Carolyn Holbrook, Anzac: The Unauthorised Biography (Sydney: University of New South Wales, 2014), pp. 1–2.
2. Gordon Inglis, Sport and Pastime in Australia (London: Methuen, 1912), pp. 3 and 7.
3. Ian Jobling, ‘Australian Sporting Heroes’, in Wray Vamplew (ed.), Sport: Nationalism and Internationalism ASSH Studies No. 2 (Melbourne: Australian Society for Sports History, 1987), pp. 91–118.
4. See Inglis, Sport and Pastime in Australia, pp. 8–9
5. Richard Cashman, Paradise of Sport: The Rise of Organised Sport in Australia (Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 1995), pp. 76–77.